On 6/22/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
Arwel Parry wrote:
In message 980278fa0606171146h719fef74g2bc6333b4d42e826@mail.gmail.com, John Lyden rasputinaxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes
On 6/17/06, Conrad Dunkerson conrad.dunkerson-XfrvlLN1Pqtfpb/ySbbPhw@public.gmane.org wrote:
Ok, stop... you're making me all nostalgic. I think it all started to
go
downhill when the modems became capable of transferring text faster
than
you could read it (aka 2400 baud). :]
By that measure, my downhill was 9600 baud.
Of course, I jumped right from my 1200 baud Multitech to a 14.4K on my 486. Jump to lightspeed!
Some of us started out on 10 c.p.s. teletypes and input our first programs on paper tape....
Paper tape? Luxury. What's wrong with toggling your programs in using the panel switches?
(mutters something about the luxury of switches and having to rely on compass needles twiddling and having to wave magnets, uphill both ways in the snow)
In my day, our computers and calculators were our fingers and toes. I could only count to eighteen because I lost my pinky and big toe hunting wooly mammoths.
(uphill, both ways, in the snow)